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Show FORWIVES Washington Farmers Want Twelve Brides in Michigan Seattle, Jan. 19. The largest matrimonial mat-rimonial order ever received in the city came from Lansing, Mich , Vs-terdav, Vs-terdav, addressed to Marriage License Clerk Claude F. Gage, calling for 12 brides to be ready to wed a like number num-ber of Michigan men ranging in years from 25 to 50, and beg.n housekeeping housekeep-ing on some ot western Michigan's logged-off lands as soon thereafter as the exigencies of the situation would permit. "We want the land and we want the wives," ran the letter. "Most of us have been living In a farming community com-munity and our chances to select a wife have not been of the best. From what we hear we believe, with leap year privileges, you avIII have no trouble trou-ble in 'locating' us so far as the brides are concerned. The land question wc hae already taken up." Gase has written the Michigan man that he will advise him later as to the condition of the matrimonial market. |